The Jewish platform for social initiatives “Juice” has begun its work two and a half years ago. The project main activity — is the charity in the Jewish community of the city. “Juice” regularly organizes parties and other events, where there takes place the fund raising for the children who are in need of the treatment.
"Shabbat to go" became one more project initiated by “Juice”. Each new participant of the project buys a ready set for a Sabbath meeting exactly for that sum which he is ready to pay. The Funds are allocated for the charity.

Volunteering is my hobby. I get incredible pleasure helping someone, whether people or animals, or the environment.
It turns out, I’m volunteering since childhood. Once upon a time I have made some handcrafts in kindergarten and gave them to the old women living next to me. It seems like doing something small, but it gives a smile and positive emotions to others. Now all people are concerned about their own problems, and many of us lack good things in the world. If everyone gave a moment of his time per day or even per week to volunteering in all its forms, our life would be brighter and more joyous.

My name is Ilona Didenko, I’m 27 years old. I study at National Academy of State Administration. My hobbies are painting and studying history of the Jewish people. The first project, that I visited, was Good Deeds Week in 2012. Since then, I have been actively interested in volunteers’ work and take part in «Shabbat to go» project with pleasure. In my opinion, it is very important today to be useful to society. Every day I try to remember the concept of “tzedakah”, from the word “Tzedek”, which means “justice”. When I participate in volunteer projects I re-establish justice on earth

– My name is Katasov Evgeny.
In my life it was always been pleasant to help and to assist the people. It is not obligatory to be the friends and relatives. It gives me much pleasure the process and the result. Probably, I was born with such a character. When I have learned about “Juice”, I have been struck that here, in Kiev we have such Jewish initiative, I have never thought that it can be. I wanted to help and I had many things which I was ready to share with the others. At once, I have decided to contact familiar Jewish guys and to help them constantly. Also, my idea, of collecting the charitable help for the persons in need, was taken by many acquaintances from the social networks. I plan to attract to this charitable project more and more participants. The most important thing is that everything I do, I do gratuitously and in all sincerity.

As it concerns the information about me:

The Kiev resident, the Jew after the galakh, I work as the manager, my hobby is soccer, the activist of the youth club “See The Light”, Kiev, the project manager of football club “Lekhaim”, the captain of the team “WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?”. I am not married, and actively search for the girlfriend.

My name is Makhlina Evgenia and I am a volunteer! I visit the different Jewish organizations and I am often at different interesting Jewish parties and meetings.
Recently I have more and more begun to think about that the world is very cruel and about the fact that it is necessary to learn to create good things and to live in the peace. I am inspired by only one word… Kindness, because it really means a lot of things: the help, happiness, smiles, and a lot of other things.
My first project with “Juice” was the Fieldman project. When I was going to this project, I didn’t think of the fact that it would be so cheerful and interesting. But it has turned out that it has really brought me much pleasure, and of course many selfie)))
I am very thankful to this project for an opportunity to spend time with advantage, but at the same time it is interesting to spend the time with the remarkable people. I hope, we will be able to help a bigger number of people!

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